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Mar.20.2013
Discover the Art of Lucid Dreaming.
Lucid Dreaming is the art of realizing in your dreams while you are dreaming, that you are dreaming. When you are able to know in your dreams that you are dreaming, theh you can control your dreams to do the most fantastic things in your dreams like flying and...
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Nov.23.2011
This is about my process. I begin with several journals in which I try to capture every possible idea or observation that could become an epigram, essay or a chapter in a book. These are unrelated sketches that I might delete, post, or expand. Or they might become the germ of something...
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Feb.08.2011
Bestselling author, Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code, Lost Symbol), uses inversion therapy to help solve plot problems and overcome writer’s block by hanging upside down in gravity boots. He claims this method helps shift his entire perspective.
Makes sense. Einstein once said, “Problems cannot be solved...
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Dec.01.2010
Once upon a time I found it difficult to come up with good ideas for articles, essays and books. No longer. Now I'm plagued with the opposite problem. I have too many good ideas. I think I'm driving my literary agent crazy.
In just one year I've given her four different nonfiction book...
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Nov.10.2010
(This post on the proposal process was the Nov. 9 Write Nonfiction in November blog post; sorry...seems not to have been posted here in Red Room.)
As the number of books published each year increases, the number of people who buy them decreases. The average nonfiction book sells less than 250...
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Nov.02.2010
Up on the ridge with my excellent Austrian walking stick -- it gives a feeling of security on these wet slippery paths. Compensates for a bit of unsteadyness consonant with my age. So many features! The comfortable curved corklike handle, variable length, hardened steel changeable points for...
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Oct.13.2010
General
“I Hate You.” “I Don’t Care.” “I Hate You More For Not Caring.”
A history of the social, cultural, political, topographical, demographical and athletic rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco, between Southern and Northern California, and how San Franciscans take it seriously while...
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Jun.11.2010
I've begun the plotting for the next Inspector Andy Horton marine mystery crime novel which means there are bits of paper scattered all over my office/study. I usually work out plot and characters in pencil using spider grams and plot lines and I've got the basics of the next Inspector Andy Horton...
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Aug.21.2009
This week two news items popped into my in box which could spark ideas for plots.
The National Windsurfing Festival, this year, is to be held at the Inn On The Beach, Beachlands, Hayling Island, on 5-6 September 2009.
The National Windsurfing Festival, supported by Havant Borough Council, is now...
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Aug.10.2009
I’ve been wrestling with the plot of my next Inspector Horton Marine Mystery crime novel over the last few days – hence the silence on my blog, and the silence around the house. I get so absorbed in it, that I find it hard to think of anything else. I’m just over two thirds of the way through...
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